Also make sure that if you are using bayes learning that spamassassin is still able to read the bayes_ files. There must have been some incompatibility with mine because I had to nuke everyones bayes_ files and return sa-learn so that bayes started kicking in again. Also the config problem that Bill described bit me in the ass as well. Almost all incoming mail was being tagged as ALL_TRUSTED.
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 11:18 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: > From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I had a server running Debian Woody which was running, IIRC[1], 2.6x. > > After upgrading to Sarge now running 3.0.3-2 and exim 4.50-8 the users > > are complaining of a lot more spam getting through. I'm now seeing it > > also -- looking at a few of my spam mailboxes on that machine I can > > see a change on the day I did the update to Sarge. > > > > I thought I saw a post here about this a few weeks (months?) back but > > I'm not having luck finding it in my pre-coffee haze looking though > > the last 2000 or so messages. That's why I'm posting, as I'm thinking > > I saw a discussion about this. > > > > I've also looked over my old backed-up configs compared to the current > > ones and I'm not seeing any major differences. > > > > Can anyone recommend where I should look for changes that might have > > resulted in a change in the scoring? > > The most likely cause is a misconfigured trust path. 3.0.x introduced > the ALL_TRUSTED rule. This rule is supposed to fire with a negative > score if the message has not passed through any "untrusted" servers. > A common problem is that you have not configured your trust path > properly, so ALL_TRUSTED is firing on spam and lowering the score. > > It's tempting to just score ALL_TRUSTED as 0 to disable it, but don't > do that. The trust path settings are used on quite a few other things > behind the scenes to determine how to interpret the headers. > > You need to set the trusted_networks setting to list all of the > networks and servers that you control. There is also an > internal_networks setting that you may or may not need. If you only > set one of the two, the other one will default to using the same > values. Take a look at the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf manpage for more > info. > > There have also been a few lengthy discussions on the list regarding > this, so you may want to check the archives. > > Bowie
